A romantic interest in our own sex, not necessarily carried as far as physical experiments, was the intellectual fashion.
Cyril Connolly Quotes
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
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| Birth: | 10th July, 1903 |
| Death: | 26th November, 1974 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Writer |
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Cyril Vernon Connolly was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon and wrote Enemies of Promise , which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth.
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